Efforts to establish a national patient identifier hit another major snag as Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, fights to prevent federal funding for a unique patient identifier. Paul, who is a physician, said in ...

Citing the potential to minimize misidentification and medical errors, health informatics leaders from England, Scotland and the United States are calling on Congress to lift a 20-year ban on using ...

It isn’t every day that the House of Representatives takes bipartisan action to reverse a policy that’s been in place for two decades. But that’s what happened last month, when Democrats and ...

The CEO of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Russ Branzell criticized Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s introduction of a bill that would repeal a national patient identifier. Mr.

A petition from the American Health Information Management Association seeks to overturn a 16-year federal budget ban that blocks HHS from developing unique patient identifiers. When the original ...

MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TASCET, Inc., released its “Unique Patient Identifier,” or UPI, solution to the healthcare industry today-- resolving a long, contentious search by providers, patient ...

The House of Representatives today approved the bipartisan Foster-Kelly Amendment as a part of the six-bill FY2021 minibus package that includes the Labor-HHS appropriations bill, which also passed ...

Providers and health IT groups kept up lobbying for removal of the congressional ban on funding creation of a unique patient identifier at an Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT event on ...

Technology providers are optimistic that, after close to 20 years, they may be gaining ground on efforts to remove a ban on the use of federal funds to adopt a nationwide unique patient identifier.

Experts convened by HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology clashed over the role a national patient identifier could play in improving patient-matching among ...